retour chariot

/\ʁə.tuʁ ʃa.ʁjo\/ noun

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14 characters

Language

French

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retour chariot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Touche d’une machine à écrire qui fait revenir le chariot en début de ligne, et fait tourner légèrement le rouleau pour écrire sur une nouvelle ligne sur la feuille. Pronounced \ʁə.tuʁ ʃa.ʁjo\.

Key facts for retour chariot
PropertyValue
Headwordretour chariot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.tuʁ ʃa.ʁjo\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

retour chariot is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for retour chariot is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.tuʁ ʃa.ʁjo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for retour chariot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is retour chariot, spelled R-E-T-O-U-R- -C-H-A-R-I-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Touche d’une machine à écrire qui fait revenir le chariot en début de ligne, et fait tourner légèrement le rouleau pour écrire sur une nouvelle ligne sur la feuille.
  2. 2
    Opération qui consiste à continuer le texte au début de la prochaine ligne ou résultat de cette opération.
  3. 3
    Caractère symbolisant le retour à la ligne.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "retour chariot"?
"retour chariot" is spelled R-E-T-O-U-R- -C-H-A-R-I-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.tuʁ ʃa.ʁjo\.
What does "retour chariot" mean?
As a noun, "retour chariot" means: Touche d’une machine à écrire qui fait revenir le chariot en début de ligne, et fait tourner légèrement le rouleau pour écrire sur une nouvelle ligne sur la feuille.
How do you pronounce "retour chariot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "retour chariot" is \ʁə.tuʁ ʃa.ʁjo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "retour chariot" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.